Re: GRUB failure after updates

[Terence <terence.john@gmail.com>]

Hi, Mike,

If GRUB allows you to boot into Debian, run "update-grub" as a sudo command or as root.

The resulting report should show that GRUB has found both OS on your system. Mine shows, for example:

Generating grub configuration file ...
Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.3.0-1-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.3.0-1-amd64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-1-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.2.0-1-amd64
Found Debian GNU/Linux (stretch/sid) on /dev/sdb1
Found Debian GNU/Linux (stretch/sid) on /dev/sdc1
Found Windows 10 (loader) on /dev/sdd1
done

HTH

Terence

On 14 February 2016 at 18:32, <mat715@comcast.net> wrote:

I have a single core pentium processor system. Not sure about the version of Debian Linux however I do know:

GRUB v1.99-27

 

GNOME Version 3.4.2

 

32 bit O/S

For several years  I have used this hardware with Windows XP and Debian in a dual bootable system through GRUB. Yesterday I loaded Debian and received a number of updates over the Internet. On the next reboot I lost  the ability to boot to the XP O/S.

How do I get the choice of both XP and Debian as operating systems back?

Thank you,

Mike Tremblay